Standings Prediction Contest 2017-2018

Post #1 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Sun Sep 24, 2017 6:01 pm

I may actually be getting this going sooner every season. If a few of you could at least try setting your picks and making sure it isn't broken sooner rather than later, that would be great. If it seems to us like it works, I'll probably post it to the General Board and we can increase the participants.

Same deal as past seasons. You can go here:

http://carpediemjuggling.com/dave/warriors/prediction

to try to predict the standings for the the Western and Eastern conference this season. At the end of the year, things are scored by taking the difference between your prediction for each team and their actual position. Clearly lower scores are better. So if you predict the Clippers to be 3rd, and they are 9th, you get 6 points. Predict the Lakers to be 13th and they are 15th, 2 points. Lowest total score when we add up the 15 teams in a conference wins.

Undoubtedly some of you will have forgotten your password. I think I built something to make it easier for me to help with that, but I don't remember what it was heh... So when somebody forgets, let me know and I can try to figure it out. And of course when somebody finds a bug, let me know that as well. And don't spend a bunch of time trying to find some security hole. You'll succeed and just waste my time. It is a stupid basketball prediction game, not your bank. Good luck!

Post #2 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Mon Oct 2, 2017 4:57 pm

So far it looks like only one person other than me has entered predictions. Have people had enough, or not noticed the sticky thread?

FrigginFalcon · Post #3 » by **FrigginFalcon** » Mon Oct 2, 2017 9:38 pm

Chris Porter's Hair wrote:So far it looks like only one person other than me has entered predictions. Have people had enough, or not noticed the sticky thread?

I gave it my best shot.

hamncheese · Post #4 » by **hamncheese** » Wed Oct 4, 2017 3:46 pm

Chris Porter's Hair wrote:So far it looks like only one person other than me has entered predictions. Have people had enough, or not noticed the sticky thread?

Just noticed it today. But will wait until closer to the season starting.

BW32 · Post #5 » by **BW32** » Thu Oct 5, 2017 6:41 am

Just turned in my picks, the East is impossible they all suck as bad as the next team.

FrigginFalcon · Post #6 » by **FrigginFalcon** » Thu Oct 5, 2017 6:48 am

BW32 wrote:Just turned in my picks, the East is impossible they all suck as bad as the next team.

I don't know, I don't think all of the teams in the East suck. Some of them are quite the opposite . . . they blow.

KevinMcreynolds · Post #7 » by **KevinMcreynolds** » Wed Oct 11, 2017 1:59 pm

after the top 6 in the east I have no idea who to pick, all these teams are terrible. I can't believe two of these teams are going to make the playoffs.

Andy123 · Post #8 » by **Andy123** » Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:44 pm

1Golden
2 Houston
3 Spurs
4 OKC
5 Denver
6 Portland
7 Minnesota
8. Utah
Im going to regret not entering the Pels .

1. Boston
2. Cleveland
3. Toronto ( regular season )
4. Bucks
5. Heat
6. Detroit
7. Brooklyn ( I'm a Homer )

Post #9 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 5:35 pm

I like the idea that the east will just decline to send an 8th team to the playoffs

FrigginFalcon · Post #10 » by **FrigginFalcon** » Fri Oct 13, 2017 9:11 pm

Chris Porter's Hair wrote:I like the idea that the east will just decline to send an 8th team to the playoffs

That's an excellent thought, but maybe also consider making the 7th & 8th Seeds in the East the #1 and #2 Seeds in the G-League Playoffs.

(In the G-League EAST, obviously -- don't want them getting too big for their britches.)

MinnieRon · Post #11 » by **MinnieRon** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 1:34 pm

Chris Porter's Hair wrote:I may actually be getting this going sooner every season.
....

Same deal as past seasons. You can go here:

http://carpediemjuggling.com/dave/warriors/prediction
.....

Undoubtedly some of you will have forgotten your password.

Never had a password, actually...

Can you give me one?

Post #12 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Sat Oct 14, 2017 2:20 pm

MinnieRon wrote:
Chris Porter's Hair wrote:I may actually be getting this going sooner every season.
....

Same deal as past seasons. You can go here:

http://carpediemjuggling.com/dave/warriors/prediction
.....

Undoubtedly some of you will have forgotten your password.

Never had a password, actually...

Can you give me one?

Trying to remember how this works. I wrote it a while ago. It *looks* like if you have no password and you fail login, then it will let you put in a password. Can you try logging in and just put nonsense for your password and see what happens?

MinnieRon · Post #13 » by **MinnieRon** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:24 am

Chris Porter's Hair wrote:
MinnieRon wrote:
Chris Porter's Hair wrote:I may actually be getting this going sooner every season.
....

Same deal as past seasons. You can go here:

http://carpediemjuggling.com/dave/warriors/prediction
.....

Undoubtedly some of you will have forgotten your password.

Never had a password, actually...

Can you give me one?

Trying to remember how this works. I wrote it a while ago. It *looks* like if you have no password and you fail login, then it will let you put in a password. Can you try logging in and just put nonsense for your password and see what happens?

Great, thanks!

I managed to squeeze-in my two (winning) entries.

I'm gonna be the first ever to score the absolute ZERO.
(Or the first one over 100 points... :lol:

)

Post #14 » by **floppymoose** » Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:25 am

I made some quick picks

Post #15 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:58 pm

And here is our "wisdom" of the crowds going into the season. Good luck, everyone.

(I'll finish cleaning up the formatting later)

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name           average prediction
Golden State     1.0000
Houston          2.3571
San Antonio      3.1429
Oklahoma City    3.7143
Minnesota        5.9286
Denver           7.0714
LA Clippers      7.1429
Portland         7.7143
Utah             8.5714
New Orleans      9.5714
Memphis          10.1429
Dallas           12.3571
LA Lakers        13.2143
Sacramento       13.5714
Phoenix          14.5000

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name          average prediction
Cleveland     1.5000
Boston        2.1429
Washington    2.9286
Toronto       4.0000
Milwaukee     5.1429
Miami         6.3571
Charlotte     6.9286
Philadelphia  7.9286
Detroit       8.2857
Indiana       11.2857
New York      11.9286
Brooklyn      12.0714
Atlanta       12.5000
Orlando       12.5000
Chicago       14.5000

Post #16 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:09 pm

14 people entered each game this year

Post #17 » by **floppymoose** » Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:08 pm

Gordon Haywards injury is going to mess me up

and1GS · Post #18 » by **and1GS** » Wed Oct 25, 2017 8:32 pm

Damnit this is the third year in a row I've accidentally missed this. My bad.

Post #19 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:16 am

Looks like the automatic scoring is broken again. I'll try to take a look sometime soon

Post #20 » by **Chris Porter's Hair** » Wed Nov 1, 2017 5:23 am

Fixed. I'm leading in the west despite only having one team right. In the east I suspect Orlando and Cleveland are hosing most of us.